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Farndale's "Murder
Mystery"
a Comedy by David McGillivray
and Walter Zerlin Jnr.
Produced by Aubrey Sinden |
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Cast |
| Mrs. Reece (playing Clarissa Rook, Lady
Bishop's sister; Regine, the French maid; Patricia Bishop, Lady
Bishop's niece; Letitia Bishop, her sister: Mr. Goodbody, a
solicitor) |
Di Davidson |
| Thelma (playing Daphne Bishop, Lady
Bishop's daughter; Rose Bishop, her spinster aunt) |
Lynda Leigh |
| Gwyneth |
Ann Hohenkerk |
| Felicity (playing Pawn, a butler;
Colonel King, Lady Bishop's brother-on-law) |
Anne Edwards |
| Audrey (playing Lady Doreen Bishop, a
widow; Violet Bishop, her spinster aunt; Mrs. King, the Colonel's
wife; Joan Bishop, Lady Bishop's cousin) |
Sue Trueman |
| Gordon (playing Inspector
O'Reilly) |
Jim Saphin |
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| The action of the play rakes place
in the drawing room of Checkmate Manor, the ancestral home of Lady
Doreen Bishop. |
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Synopsis
Every drama group has experienced the horros of
what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G.
Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that
almost everything that could happen does. The scenery collapses,
cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a
strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitious
evening's entertainment with the cunning whodunnit, "Murder At
Checkmate Manor". And just in case the audience should get bored
there's a Film and Fashion Show and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete
with Prize. The crunch comes in the denouement when the "murderer",
about to be revealed, has to rush home to bandage up an injured
daughter. But Mrs. Reece, doyenne of the group, rises above the
slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and
provide the final inventive
twist. |
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